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Sex addiction is th symptom. The real problem is a lack of personal discipline, self-control and a failure to set standards for oneself and live up to a code of ethical behavior based on morals and values. Interesting that South Park, like Woods, makes money on the arrested development of adults of which the writer is guilty of.

How about South Park do a routine on the tyranny of nihilism and the "ME" generation.

I go to clubs at night, and the girls that my assistant arranged to meet me there, why they just throw themselves at me. Every time I turn around, one of them has dropped to her knees and is servicing me.

It's a horrible thing this sickness I have. I have to have sex with each and every one of them. Think about that.

Pity me.

This thing I have ... it's a disease.

Why, it's almost a disability, even.

And since I'm disabled, you can't make snide comments about me or question me in any way.

I have absolute moral authority.

In fact, I can't see why my disability doesn't qualify me for monthly Social Security SSI payments and a handicapped parking plate so I don't have to park so far away from the cash registers at the drugstore where I shop for condoms.

Sex addiction makes me laugh (where were all these sex addicted females when I needed them in high school!). But seriously, it is a symptom not a disease. It is not surprising that a highly disciplined person like Tiger would have a vice like that.

Today's theme competition is neck and neck between two science hoaxes and two sexual passion among the rich and famous posts. Or is that four hoaxes? I hope one more sex post pops up and gives sexual passion the victory, not that sexual passion or the Globe Trotters ever lose games in the end.

Can anyone tell me if there is any vertebrate species anywhere -- cold-blooded or warm-blooded, it doesn't matter -- where the male is not continuously receptive to sex? It seems to me that if there ever was one, it went extinct a long time ago.

I think "sex addiction" is the 21st century way of saying "I had the opportunity and I thought I could get away with it."

The computer dating services like E-Harmony are the modern hook-up tool for the ever hopeful and lonely single people seeking Mr or Mrs Goodbar. This leads to an addiction to geeting to know new people, that could also be safely handled in social settings without instant sex with every attraction force encountered in another human body. Really. I bet that Johnny Edwards is wishing he never encountered the Rielle Hunter's attraction force. We frequently see 20 year old Philipino girls out with 50 year old burned out men in HotAlanta. Money does make men's dreams come true for a little while.

What a crock, Tiger has a marriage problem, i.e. shouldn't have done so. If he wasn't married this wouldn't be a character flaw, he wouldn't have stopped playing for any stretch of time and instead it would be a juicy side story.

jrberg3...But he is a married man with a trophy wife and small children, and he wants to keep both lives, but he cannot and has to chose. That's why his story is interesting. How will he chose? He needs a home when he is not on the tournament and endorsements trail. That means he will chose Elin over all of the Whores on earth. Poor Tiger!

Give me a break!Tiger flaunted his family image for years, and fraudulently used it for financial gains. The web he wove was a thing of beauty! Advertisers bought it, sponsors bought it, and obviously the fans bought it. It was all a big mirage. A pile of bull$hit... plain and simple!I still have 3 dozen Nike balls left in my locker, and when the last one finds a watery grave or gets driven into the woods, it will be the last Nike Golf product I use.It's a good thing I don't play those Nike Victory Red irons.

duplicitous: Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.

Tiger built and marketed an image of himself as mentally tough, focused, and committed to a high standard of physical excellence. He portrayed himself as dedicated to one way of living while secretly indulging in another. Marriage was one of the ways he adorned that image.

His behavior was duplicitous.

To view Tiger as a "rich dude fucking bimbos' on the side, minimizes the way he earned and maintained his status and wealth. His inconsistent and deceitful behavior ultimately compromised the integrity of the product he was selling.

Why would a man who built his career on self discipline, be unable to transfer or use winning behavior in his private life?

traditionalguy is right - the problem is an inability to live with our choices. There's nothing really wrong with a young, single athlete getting all the strange tail be can - all parties apparently consent and nobody gets hurt. This is basically the dream life for most young men, and rich athletes get to live it to the fullest.

But Tiger made a choice to get married and have kids, and apparently it wasn't an "open marriage" (at least so Elin tells it), but he chose to stick with his old lifestyle too, and that's where the problem arises. He made the choice to get married, but was not willing to follow through with the consequences of that choice.

Edwards was apparently married to a heartless shrew - I can almost feel some sympathy for him there - but he made the CHOICE to stay married to further his political ambitions, but he was unable to follow through with the consequences of that choice.

""The fact that it is a pretty smart show, the fact it is a popular show, and the fact it is a hip show means they can go pretty far with some of their subjects and not worry about getting sued," said Syracuse University Prof. Robert Thompson."

"Comedy, Thompson said, is there to make fun of situations like Woods' turmoil. History books are for the long-term stories, journalism for the breaking, and comedy "can take this stuff where angels fear to tread.""

Important issue in American right now?? Why the implication that it's a recent phenomenon? It's been such an issue through history that the Greeks mythologized it in their literature; how many heroines did Zeus bonk in his day? And how prevalent would this sort of thing have to be for it to show up in the cultural mythologies of the time?

The only thing "new" is the sheer volume of repetetive coverage of such transgressions by popular figures, and that's probably due to the fact that the internet is so central to modern life nowadays. Other than that, it's the same old same old.

bagoh20 - I'd guess not. You'd have keep check on the why you're doing it, in your head. What are are your motivations? Is your life out of control by doing what you're doing. I'd guess it's more like Overeaters Anonymous.

Do the rich and famous get to abuse women for money without consequence, while the street-level hooker gets tossed in the slam?

What are you, a college freshman? All societies differentiate between cheap prostitutes, high-end call girls, beneficiaries of sugar daddies, and hangers on who just like to fuck rich people. That's how it is.

Also, nobody made Accenture trade on Tiger Woods's image to make money.